Galeus Priapus

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Galeus priapus is a little-known species of catshark, family Scyliorhinidae, found on or near the bottom in deep water off New Caledonia and Vanuatu. A slender species attaining a length of 46 cm, it is characterized by a long caudal fin bearing a crest of enlarged dermal denticles along the dorsal margin, and very long claspers in adult males. This shark is gray-colored, with four dark saddles along the back and tail.The first specimens of G. priapus were collected in the 1990s, during a series of Indo-Pacific research cruises jointly undertaken by the Institut de recherche pour le développement and the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Bernard Séret and Peter Last described the new species in a 2008 volume of the scientific journal Zootaxa